Terms Flashcards

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Ethos

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Moral and ethical character

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Plainchant

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A unison unaccompanied song

Victimae paschali laudes

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Neume

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Sign used in the notation of chant to indicate a certain number of notes and general melodic direction

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Solmization

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Method of assigning syllables to steps in a scale, makes it easier to identify and sing whole and semitones

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Liturgy

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Prescribed body of texts to be spoken or sung and ritual actions to be performed in a religious service

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Mass

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The most important service of the Catholic church

Mass for christmas day

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Mass Proper

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Texts of the Mass that are assigned to a particular day in the Church Calendar

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Mass Ordinary

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Texts of the Mass that remain the same on most or all days of the Church calendar, the tunes may change

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Office

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Series of 8 prayer services of the Roman church, celebrated daily at specified times
Matins
Lauds
Prime
Terce
Sext
Nones
Vespers
Compline
Vespers for Christmas Day
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10
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Psalm tone

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Melodic formula for singing psalms in the office

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Antiphon

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Liturgical chant that comes before and after a psalm in the office
Tecum principium

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12
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Responsorial

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Manner of performing in which a soloist alternates with a group

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13
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Antiphonal

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Manner of performing in which 2 or more groups alternate

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Direct

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Manner of performing chant without alternating

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Syllabic

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One note / syllable of text

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Neumatic

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Chant having about 1-7 notes sung to each syllable of text

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Melismatic

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Has lots of melismas

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Trope

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Adding words, melody, a melisma, or just words to a chant

Quem queritis in presepe

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Sequence

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Latin chant that follows the Alleluia in some masses. Restatement of a pattern, melodic or harmonic, on successive or different pitch levels
Rex caeli domine

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Liturgical Drama

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Dialogue on a sacred subject set to music, usually performed with action, linked to liturgy
Quem pueritis in presepe

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Goliard song

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Songs associated to the Goliards

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Chanson de Geste

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Medieval french epic recounting the deeds of national heros

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Jongleur

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Medieval musician or street entertainer

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Troubadour

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Poet-composer of southern france who wrote monophonic songs in occitan

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Trouvere

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Poet-composer of northern france who wrote monophonic songs in old french

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Contrafactum

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Replacing the text of a vocal work without really changing the music

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Strophic

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Consists of 2 or more stanzas that are equivalent in form and can be sung to the same melody

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Parallel Organum

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Polyphony where an added voice moves in exact parallel to a chant a P5 below it

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Discant

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Style of polyphony where the upper voice has 1-3 notes for each note of the lower voice

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Organum

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Style of polyphony where you add one or more voices to a chant
Viderunt omnes, Perotinus

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Florid Organum

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Style of polyphony where the lower voice holds a note while the upper voice does its own thing

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Rhythmic Mode

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6 durational patterns used in polyphony

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Conductus

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Serious medieval song

Ave virgo virginum

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Clausula

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Self-contained section of an organum that closes with a cadence
Clausula on Dominus

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Substitute Clausula

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A new clausula designed to replace a segment of a chant

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Motet

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Polyphonic vocal composition

Te deum, Lully

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Franconian notation

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using note shapes to indicate duration

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Ars nova

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Style of polyphony that allows for greater rhythmic flexibility

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Isorhythm

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Repetition in a voice part of a pattern of durations

Hugo, hugo, Vitry

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Hocket

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Alternating rapidly between two voices, as if they share a melody

41
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Rondeau

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ABaAbAB

Robins m’aime, Halle

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Trecento

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The 1300s

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Ballata

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AbbaA

Non avra ma pieta, Landini

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Ars subtilior

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Style of polyphony with complex rhythms and notation

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Fauxbourdon

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Two voices are written, and a third unwritten voice sings below the upper voice
Criste, Redemptor omnium, Du Fay

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Cantus Firmus

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A new polyphonic piece based on an existing melody

Missa se la face ay pale, Du fay

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Motto Mass

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Polyphonic mass where the movements share the same opening motive

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Imitation Mass

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Polyphonic mass where each movement is based on the same polyphonic model
Missa o magnum mysterium, Victoria

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Paraphrase mass

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Polyphonic mass where each movement is based on the same monophonic model

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Canon

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Composition where the voices enter in order at intervals

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Lied

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Song with german words

Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen, Isaac

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Chorale

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Strophic hymn in the Lutheran tradition

Ein feste burg, Walter

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Anthem

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Polyphonic sacred work in English

If ye love me, Tallis

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Villancico

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Polyphonic song in spanish

Je ne puis vivre, Busnoys

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Frottola

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Italian polyphonic song

Mal un muta per effecto, Cara

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Madrigal

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Italian poetic form

Non al suo amante, Bologna

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Lute song

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English genre of solo song with lute accompaniment

Flow my tears, Dowland

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Tablature

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System of notation used for plucked string instruments

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Variations

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Form with a series of variants on a theme

John, come kiss me now, Byrd

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Canzona

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Instrumental work adapted from a chanson